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Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1887-07-23
Among the Thousand Islands. "

Among the Islands one lives upon the
water. By certain tacit understanding
between the islanders, every resident has
recogized right to explore every other
residents petty domain. No obtrusive
notice-boards flaunt before the innocent
face of heaven the anti-social and wholly
uncalled-for information that trespassers
will be prosecuted with the utmost rigor
of the law. On the contrary, the usual
formula painted on the neat little placard
beside the tiny landing-stages assumes
the optative rather than the imperative
mood: "Parties landing on this island
are requested to kindly abstain from
damaging the ferns and flowers" The
fact is, all the islanders are there as sum-
mer visitors only; each possesses but
a tiny realm of his own, often
beautifully varied, but always readily
exhausted of its native interest /;
and the whole charm of the spot would
evaporate entirely if proprietors insisted
with ingrained British churlishness upon
their legal right to shut themselves in
from landless humanity with the effectu-
al protest of high brick wall Accord
ingly, every body always lands freely, no
man hindering, upon everybody else's
private island; and the day is mostly
passed in wandering (afoat) in a deli
cious, aimless, listless fashion down tiny
channels between an islet, stopping here
to pick rare wild flower from a cliff on
the side, and halting there to explore
and climb some jetting rock whose peak
promises a wider view over all the sur
rounding little archipelagoes. Popular
Science Monthly.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1887-07-23

There are some facts connected with
the worlds wheat production, as set forth
by the Department Of Agriculture, which
are equally interesting and instructive.
The total product is 2,O31, 3s2, 2s5 bush
els; the supply is for a population of a
thousand millions, or two bushels per
capita. But India, with her two hun
dred million Of inhabitants, is promi-
nent wheat-exporting country, while
raising only 25s, 100000 bushels. The
United States are the largest growers Of
wheat of any country. In 1866 we raised
457, 200, 900 bushels The average
yield per acre in 1886 was, say
twelve bushels. In Great Brit
ain it was trihe under twenty-seven
bushels. This is matter for considera-
ton. Our farmers might grow on the
same area as much again wheat with
greater profit. France came next to us
in production. Russia raises rye as the
staple bread food Of her people. The
wheat fields Of this country have fol-
lowed the breaking up" Of the new ter
ritory. The cost has been slight, but the
land has in many cases been badly i'm
poverished. An exchange believes there
will eventually be a return to the culti-
yation Of this cereal in the Middle and
Northern States, but under higher
method. In the meantime, the agricul-
ture Of the West, North and Southwest
will become more diversified, while on
the Pacific slope irrigation will make fer
tile the now barren soil.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1887-07-23

1t will not be long before preparations
for taking the eleventh census will be in
order and yet there are four volumes of
the tenth census that have not been pub
lished yet. This is due in part to the
failure of Congress to make necessary ap-
preparation, but the reason why Con-
gress has refused to do this is because of
the great delay of the statistican in pre-
pairing the volumes for the press, which,
it is held, has destroyed their usefulness
and made it not worth while to publish
them.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1887-07-23

persuading the servant that wanted to
rest, and would let myself out when l
was ready, managed to conceal myself
in closet in the hall, where waited
four mortal hours.
At last was rewarded. A light step
came through the hall, achair was drawn
to the telephone, and clear voice, won
derfully like Agnes's called:
"Please connect with Gruffland &
Co.. p
Waiting only long enough to let him
actually begin conversation in his usual
style, I rushed out, and catching the
culprit by the arm, bestowed resound-
ing box upon the ear of the astonished
Mr.. Raphael. The little impl This was
his revenge for his well-deserved snubs.
/ have no doubt he had heard every
word of my conversations with Agnes.
OF course the Peytons were distressed
and apologetic, and Agnes was persuaded
not to hurry away, and old Gruff re-
Tented, and l got the promotion in due
time; but never could endure the sight
of that cherubic boy. 1 verify believe
that the box l bestowed upon him was
his only punishment, and 1 rejoice to
think that it was such stingerl
If this story has a moral it is short
one. The more innocent and guileless q
boy looks, the less is he to be trusted
g. Linton, in Domestic Monthly.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1887-07-23
Eucalyptus and Ague.

What has been the effect of planting
the eucalyptusl Professor Tommasi-
Crudeli has never attributed to these
rees the least influence upon fever. On
the contrary he says that in the southern
hemisphere, where vegetation is more
richly developed than in Europe, there
are numberless forests of eucalyptus
where, as Professor Liversidge, of the
University of Sydney, has declared,
malaria obtains to very great extent.
He also mentions the futile efforts to pro-
mote health made at the instigation Of
the French Trappists at the Three
Fountains, where among vast plantations
of eucalyptus, all the inmates of an agri-
cultural penitentiary instituted in the
neighborhood of the Abbey were subject
to fevers, more or less severe. Not an in
habitant of the Three Fountains escaped
the malaria in 1882, during which, in all
the rest of the Roman campagna the
health was excellent, and the percentage
Of fevers very small.-Sdnitdry Era.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1887-07-23
POPULAR SCIENCE.

A leaf of the giant water lily (Victoria
regia) has been known to measure "a feet
Of inches in circumference, its weight
being nearly ID pounds. One of the
flowers was 4 feet inches in circumfer-
ence, with petals inches in length, and
weighed 81 pounds.
A German mathematician has calcu-
lated that the snowfall of Central Ger
many from December 10 to % weighed
no less than 100000 900 tons in the area
between so degrees and 5.25 degrees
north latitude, and between degrees
and ts degrees east longitude.
An apparatus Of iron and glass, in
which pressure of 1000 atmospheres can
be developed for the purpose of studying
the influence Of great pressure on animal
life, has been exhibited to biologists in
France. With it deep sea animals can
be observed under their natural com
preston.
Besides its unusual temperature and
rainfall observations, the New England
Meteorological Society has on hand for
this season two special investigations:
the thunder storms in New England,
and the sea breeze on tho Massachusetts,
coast. The former inquiry is in its third
year, the last is now undertaken for the
first time
The main factor in the production of
consumption is believed by Prof. Hirsch
to be overcrowding and bad hygiene.
Damp when conjoined with frequent os-
citations of temperature predisposes to
the disease but humidity Of the air is
less important than dampness of soil.
Occupation is extremely important, but
mainly indirectly, as tending to good or
bad hygienic conditions.
The alkaloid solanine, from the fruit of
the potato plant, is being employed to
relieve acute pain and as narcotic, in
the place of morphine. 1t is said that
its administration in large doses does not
occasion the nausea and vomiting
which occurs frequently from the use of
this latter. The therapeutic dose is
from three-fourths of grain to four
grains, and even II grains have been
given without any unpleasant effects.
A Russian physician, DR.. s. Tn. Stein,
reports such remarkable experiments, in
which he has induced cataract in the eyes
of young porpoises by subjecting them
to the continuous vibrations of tuning
fork for twelve to twenty-four hours, or
for a much less time when the animals
were deprived of the power of hearing.
The cataract soon disappeared on remov-
ing the exciting cause, and could be re-
newed. The phenomenon has not been
satisfactorily explained.
From statistics collected in parts of
the German Empire, G. Hellman finds
that the danger from lightning, though
generally increasing, is diminishing in
certain districts, the risk becoming less
the more closely houses are clustered.
The character of the soil has great in
Auence. Letting one represent the dan
ger from lightning on calcareous ground,
two will give it upon marly, nine upon
sandy, and twenty-five upon clayey soil.
1t is curious fact, yet not explained
that oak is struck much moro frequently
than other trees, SO that if the danger
for beeches be one, that for pines is
fifteen and for oaks fifty-four.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1887-07-23

Professor Charles =. Bessey, OF
Nebraska, writes: 'Men and women of
the country, want to make an appeal to
youin behalf of the country boy. Give him
the opportunity to become acquainted
with the things around him. Put the
study of soils, plants, animals, ETC., into
your public schools. Ask your school
teachers to give instruction of this kind.
Demand that they knew enough to give
such instruction in.the right way"
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1887-07-23

The mortality Of the globe has recent.
ly been completed as follows: Per min
ute, sixty-seven; per day, 97,79o; per
year, So, 1888, 1886. The number of births
per year is about SO, 792, 900; and per day
about 100000. This makes about three
births more per minute than deaths. If
the population of the globe goes on in
creasing at this rate of about million
and quarter per year, mankind will be
obliged to soon hang out the sign Of
Standing Room only''
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1887-07-23
It Is : curIous fact that persons 4

1t is . curious fact that persons far
from robust often outlive those of extra
ordinary strength and hardihood. Upon
this subject the Canada Health Journal
says that the vital parts of the system
must be well balanced in order to attain
long life, and that excessive strength in
one part is source of danger Hence
an over-developed muscular system in
vites dissolution, because it is continu-
GUS strain on the less powerful organs,
and finally wears them out.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1887-07-23

The coal beds of China are five times
as large as those of Europe, while gold,
silver, lead, tin, copper, iron, marble, and
petroleum are all found in the greatest
abundance. Owing to the prejudice of
the people the mines have never been
worked to any extent it being the popu-
lar belief in China that if these mines are
opened thousands of demons and spirits
imprisoned in the earth would come forth
and fill the country with war and suffer-
ing.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1887-07-23

The whole world seems to be hunting
for natural gas or oil. While many towns
in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Michi-
gan, and other States are seriously consid-
ering the matter Of securing natural gas,
English capitalists are preparing to de-
velop the oil prospects in Upper Burmah,
where in many places signs Of oil are Yis-
ibIs on the surface,
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1887-07-23

It is stated that the money given by
the women Of the Presbyterian Church in
the United States during the past sixteen
years foots up to se,t5O, ,O00-represent-
ing the entire support of more than 200
women missionaries. 200 native Bible
readers, and more than 1bO schools.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1887-07-23
Lieutenant Dudley Mills. Of the British

Lieutenant Dudley Mills, of the British
army, in recent expedition to shang-
Tung, China, discovered the sculptured
stones near Chiasiang, which he was the
first foreigner to visit. The inscriptions
and figures are cut on the walls Of tombs,
and are mainly devoted to the illustra-
tion of moral precepts. They are said to
be seventeen centuries old, and the first
description of them was given by Chi
nese scholar of the twelfth century.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1887-07-23
Achsap Incubator.

"Chicken raising has become science"
writes Washington correspondent to
the Cincinnati Enquirer. II was at
Keedysville last week, and the proprietor
of the Union Hotel there showed me his
incubator. He puts 1875 eggs in box,
which cost him to make it 81 or 50.
Three times day he takes tea kettle,
filed with boiling water, and pours it in
the middle of this box, which is sur
rounded on all sides by galvanized iron
or zinc, filed with sawdust, or some non
conductor. The influence of the warm
water is thus shed down upon the eggs,
which are turned every day. He gets
about eighty chickens from the eggs,
which start to picking up living at
once, and are much in advance of those
got by the old process Of the eggs being
hatched out by the mothers 49,.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1887-07-23
WHO CAN rELL2

Who can tell when the winter is comingi
Who can tell when the summer is goingi
We go to sleep when the asters are blooming,
We wake, and we find it showing.
Who can tell when the winter is goingl
Who can tell when the SIMMER Is curningi
We go to sleep pwhen the tempests are blowing,
We wake, and the bees are humming.
Ernest Whitney, in the Century.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1887-07-23
SUBSCRIPTIONS:
tAI,cays in Aduonce.)

W. c. SMITH. Charlotte N c,
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-03-01

\ Cow FoR SALE.-BilI Nye, it
seems, has cow which he offers to
sell, in the following languages.
Sowing to i'll health, 1 will sell at
my residence, in township 80, range
Is west, according to government
survey, one crushed raspberry colored
COW, age six years. She Is a good
miI&ster, and is not afraid Of the cars
or anything els. She is a cow-of
undaunted courage. and gives milk
frequently, To man who does not
fear death in any form, she would be
great boon. She is very much at
taehed TO her home at present, by
means of trace-chain, but she will
be sold to anyone who will agree tn
treat her right, She is onefourth
shorthorn and three-fourths hyena,
Purchaser need not be identified. |
will also throw in a double barrel
shotgun which goes with her. In
May she generally goes sway some
where for a week or two and returns
with tail, red cali, with long, wobhlr
legs. Her name is Rose, and / would
prefer 70 sell her 70 nonresident
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-03-01
BANNER, IDAHO, Feb. 7, 1887.

BANNER, IDAHO, Feb. 7, 1887.
BE Elmira Silver Mining Compa-
will receive sealed proposals at
p Office IN Banner until April 8,
\, for two hundred thousand
Fnds Of coarse salt, to be delivered
|helr mill In Banner, beginning the
Fdle oil June and continuing as
Ped to the first of November,
n Also for delivering their freight
4 huna to Banner during the sea
Eighty per cent. of contract
F. will be paid as fast as goods are
|slVed, and all the rest when con-
PTS completed.
john BRowN,
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-03-01

|m Elmira Silver Mining Compa-
|rll receive sealed proposals at
B office in Banner, Idaho, until
Fl2, 1887, for running three tun-
l abnut FIVE hundred feet each, to
completed on or before the first
| October next. Sixty per cent.
Eontract price will he paid month
4 work progresses, and all the
Ence as soon as contract is com
fsd JOHN RRowN,
Superintendent. :
Feb q, 4w.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-03-01
john BRowN,

lS the News Miner "gone up the
r. suspended publication,
PPea out to annex itself to Ne
h@ what! We haven't received
'uOer OF 1t for several days. The
Salluer is a welcome exchange,
outstanding it is a strong advo-
World
~ charley, nothing of the kind.
~ uoht get the News Miner
a'a'ly it is the fault of the mails.
eApect, however, to be in Neva-
nun a year and that, too, with
'a''ng this place, and if we live
~' next Presidential campaign
@all vote for Jim Blaine.
s'sMiner.
euOa think Brother Richards
we lor j. B. in 'SS if he stays
'S IS but there is possibility
VIII nave an opportunity to
:, residential candidate in
N''nout annexation to Neva.
NJ. W. u. Uncle Sam will put on !
~ Uem' about that time thai
''''e Tie old man to swell wiz
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-03-01
AN EsoCH ARDEN.

In July, 1888, Charles ]. Young
was tired and convicted in HALEY for
robbery at Shoshoue, and sentenced
to the Territorial prison for ten years
His wife resided in Ogden, and was
supplied with means by him even
from his meagre earnings while in
confinement. In August following
Mrs. Young bore girl, beautiful
child.
The Ogden correspondent of the
Salt Lake Democra. concludes this
unhappy chapter in Young's life as
follows: "While Mr.. Young was in
prison, whittier be had been sent by
the peTured evidence Of "nigger''
who had a grudge against him, Mrs.
Young got divorce in June, 1886,
and married again, being welded 70
Mr.. MARITIME, railroad man. OF this
latter fact Mr.. Young did not receive
knowledge until his arrival at Poca-
teIlo last week, when he was on his
way from prison, free and innocent
man, to meet his spouse and child,
not even then being aware of the fact
of his wife having secured divorce.
Here must insert that Mr.. Young,
after sad AMI sorrowful experience
OF ) years, 9 months and Z DAYS
in ignominious confinement, finally
/ obtained pardon from the Governor
of Idaho, who said, ''froin a very care
full examination Of the papers in this
case, and the important facts disclosed
by the newly discovered evidence
since the trial and convictions; and
from information from other and re-
liable sources, fully stated in letters,
petitions, affidavits, supported by tes-
timony, well authenticated 10y persons
conversant with the facts, showing
only the grave doubts as to the gnilt
OF said CharlesJ J. Young of the charge
for which he was tried and convicted,
very clearly establishing in my mind
his entire innocence" came to the
. conclusion that "we cannot therefore
hold it consistent with justice to
sanction longer his Imprisonment for
! the alleged crime" and consequently
ordered his release.
But what release, When he got
, down to Ogden, where he left homo
! and a wife, he came as en Enoch
5 Arden to shake hands with his wife's
husband and kiss his child that has
another man for its father. Still he
/ suceumbs to the inevitable, and
though victim of untoward eicrum-
stances he bears up like man. He
wiz net disturb the new household,
but he is a friend to them and will
seek to recover in the future from the
blasting experiences and trials of the
past. He desires to express his thanks
(the warm depth of which can only
be imagined from dim distance) to
all his old friends and acquaintance
who are staying By him and congrat-
ulating him on his happy though
painfully late release from undeserv-
ed and therefore doubly cruel punish
ment.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-03-01

\ New INvENTIoN.-Chas. Stole,
OF Bellevue, has lately perfected an
improved system for saving inc gold,
and will receive within a short time
letters of patent upon his apparatus.
Experiments made by him prove be-
You'd doubt the praotieability of his
method in the saving of the fine
flower gold of Snake River, and Mr..
Stole expects to realize handsome
results from his invention Bellevue
Herald.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-03-01

SOME OF the papers Of this Terri
tory seems determined to snow under,
with their little fabers, the people o.
this burg. The Democrat gave us
six feet OF snow, short time ago, and
now comes a Boise City correspon-
pondent of the lnter-Idaho, and COW
ers us entirely up under fifteen feet
of natures white coat. Oh, the snow,
the monotonous snow, how it piles up,
as the news doth go; and if the next
man adds figure, just to make the
pile bigger, twill be said we can't
dig our way out, so deep is the snow
in the burg Idaho, and round about
The prosaic fact of the matter is the
white covering round about this burg
is not four feet deep, and this is about
as deep as it has been this winter
On the high mountains to the north
of this place it will measure fifteen
feet. but our town, the Lord be prals-
Cd is not on the summit of that ele-
waited range.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-03-01

[B EMERY is prepared for Lent
D, with the deep sea mackerel
cod FISH, Columbia River Salmon
Is, tongues and sounds, smoked
Eng, clam chowder, little neck
ks Can't be surpassed. +
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-03-01

Billy weich'- I"v."iion a success

News-Sliner
Some time az Billy Welcb, the
HALEY aud Bullion hack driver, was
offered 800 ia coin to take six tim
beers mp 10 the Bay State mine, which
IS located about hundred yards
from the Deer creek divide and
miie and half from Bullion. He
was also to get 50 for every ton of
ore brought down from the mine.
This offer was good one, and Bill at
once put his brain iuto active opera
ton to bag that money. After a
little study on the problem, he worked
out In his tnind the pattern after
which he would have constructed
some snow-shoes that could be FUSED
by horses He sIraightway pro-
cured the necessary material and had
Mr. jackson OF this city make the
shoes.
When completed, each shoe was
about foot square; aud attached to
each hoof of horse, gave the ami
mails lower extremitIes picturesque
and novel appearance There were
many who scotted at the idea, and
gave Billy the laugh, out he came
out ahead nevertheless. He made a
trial Of the invention, aud then took
the tlmbers up to the nine and
brought down some ore. In all that
he has done SO far, he has received
$40.
de has yet some Improvement tc
make OH the shoes, which will render
them more complete. He will guar.
antee that he will take one of hi:
horses, with the shoes on, and follow
anywhere man can go with his snow
shoes on, and make better time ex
cept going down hill, where the maj
on snow-shoes, of course, has the ad
vantage of sliding.
Several devices have been studied
up in California to enable horses t.
60 over snow, but none of them ar,
like the bullion horse snow-shoes.
Billy can now go over snow twenty O
thirty feet deep as easy as if it wer,
only foot in depth. The shoe vii
! be particularly servlceabIe in snow
countries, and after some heavy flock
aiding snow storm we may expect t
see the Bullion hack coming dow
from Bullion over the hills, regardless
of roads or trails.
After Mr. Welch perfects his in
VENT II he will take steps towar,
! having it patented.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-03-01

\ IRpY, of Gambriuus District, left
FRIDAY fir Parma, Ada county. Mr.
L. health is not good, and he has
down 10 try the effects of a change
Emafp
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-03-01

~ Ask US to partake of a big feast,
n. AGAINST our religious principl, 8
,.trse to indulge during Lent as well
cher times,
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-03-01

!, I, Setzer has purchased John
Il, interest in the Red, White and
..t7 mine near Grimes creek.